Guruduth Banavar

That means there's many, many ways in which people can be unhealthy, and we find that all the time.

And, you know, we look at every individual and we say, hey, look, you are, you know...

not doing great with your sulfide production pathways or your methane production pathways or your short-chain fatty acid pathways, right?

So to me, the more important question is to understand what specific pathways are not doing great for any given individual and give them recommendations and insights based on that.

Yeah.

So that's what we focus on, right?

The people who are healthy, the small percentage of them, for whom very few pathways are out of whack, those guys are doing pretty great.

For them, what we say is, hey, in order for you to maintain it, make sure that you eat the following things, make sure that you avoid the following things, because then you can maintain your great health.

But for the vast majority, we are telling them, how can you bring yourself back into some kind of a good state?

Well, first of all, remember, RNA is gene expression.

So some people would say that is genetic in some sense, right?

But it's not genes as in your DNA, you know, what you were born with, but it's more about what have you done with everything that you were given?

right?

From nature, right?

By the way, your microbiome also comes from your mom more than anyone else.

The mother's health is really important because your microbiome gets transferred.

You know, when you have a vaginal birth, your mother's microbiome gets transferred to you and then it's up to you how you maintain it, right?

Depends on how you build your lifestyle and what have you, right?

So the question is, what fraction of the people have bad pathways and what do they do about it?

So what we end up seeing is, you know, the work that you did to maintain your pathways may be...